Differentiating irritable mood and disruptive behavior in adults.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Irritability has both mood and behavioral manifestations. These frequently co-occur, and it is unclear to what extent they are dissociable domains. We used confirmatory factor analysis and external validators to investigate the independence of mood and behavioral components of irritability.

Methods

The sample comprised 246 patients (mean age 45 years; 63% female) from four outpatient programs (depression, anxiety, bipolar, and schizophrenia) at a tertiary hospital. A clinical instrument rated by trained clinicians was specifically designed to capture irritable mood and disruptive behavior dimensionally, as well as current categorical diagnoses i.e., intermittent explosive disorder (IED); oppositional defiant disorder (ODD); and an adaptation to diagnose disrupti

SUBMITTER: Knackfuss ACU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7879084 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature